International Media: "But Saadat is a Grandfather!" Also, BBC Tells Demonstrable Lie About Past Kidnappings, Makes Up Conspiracy Theory, and Says "Foreigners mostly live harmoniously among the Palestinian population"
Remember when Israel brought justice to Hamas terror mastermind Sheik Ahmed Yassin, and the entire world was like "but the guy was in a wheelchair!" We think we've figured out the new sympathy phrase for mass murdering Palestinian terrorists. From Reuters stringer Nidal al-Mughrabi:
Israel's seizure of the gray-haired Saadat followed suggestions by Hamas and Abbas that Saadat might be freed. It launched the prison operation minutes after British and Americans monitors cleared out.
"The gray-haired Saadat". We suppose that we'll take it upon ourselves to perform the onerous public service of reminding everyone that old terrorists are still terrorists - and that the older they are, the more likely they are to be terrorist leaders deserving of harsh punishment.
And there's even more weasel, international MSM sympathy in the BBC's Q&A about the raid:
Israel accuses Mr Saadat of planning the revenge killing of hardline Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The Palestinian judiciary has cleared him of involvement, but he was kept in custody because of threats from Israel to assassinate him if he was released.
In case you're wondering, they didn't follow this paragraph up with another sentence - something like "and of course, by 'Palestinian judiciary' we mean the worthless kangaroo court that Arafat set up and in which nobody actually testified, a court so worthless that we're not even sure why we're mentioning it". Too bad, because that would've actually cleared things up a little. Instead, they first insinuate a conspiracy theory that as near as we can tell they made up themselves - an impossible theory that ignores that the monitors have been telling the Palestinians for weeks that they're leaving...
The speed with which Israeli forces moved in after the monitors left has led many to believe the US and UK did a secret deal - or may even have been given an Israeli ultimatum to leave.
... and then they provided extensive paragraphs about the "implications of the anti-Western backlash":
Foreigners mostly live harmoniously among the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many of them feel sympathy for the Palestinian cause and experience the daily hardships of the Israeli occupation along with the general population... [The kidnappings yesterday are] a serious new development, because in most previous abductions - which have always ended quickly and peacefully - the hostages have been used as bargaining chips for unrelated internal issues.
If you're thinking that the part about abductions of foreign citizens always ending peacefully sounds like an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing, that's because it actually is an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing.
UPDATE: Our bad on blaming the BBC for the "Israel made the monitors leave" conspiracy theory. Hannan Ashrawi seems to be the original source: "People believe that the British knew of the Israeli assault and they abandoned their post. Clearly the only source of danger was the Israeli army." Yeah, unless you count all the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory - the ones the British and Americans repeatedly complained about through such apparently opaque phrases as "if you don't do something to protect us from the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory, we're leaving".
[Cross-postd at IsraPundit]
Israel's seizure of the gray-haired Saadat followed suggestions by Hamas and Abbas that Saadat might be freed. It launched the prison operation minutes after British and Americans monitors cleared out.
"The gray-haired Saadat". We suppose that we'll take it upon ourselves to perform the onerous public service of reminding everyone that old terrorists are still terrorists - and that the older they are, the more likely they are to be terrorist leaders deserving of harsh punishment.
And there's even more weasel, international MSM sympathy in the BBC's Q&A about the raid:
Israel accuses Mr Saadat of planning the revenge killing of hardline Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. The Palestinian judiciary has cleared him of involvement, but he was kept in custody because of threats from Israel to assassinate him if he was released.
In case you're wondering, they didn't follow this paragraph up with another sentence - something like "and of course, by 'Palestinian judiciary' we mean the worthless kangaroo court that Arafat set up and in which nobody actually testified, a court so worthless that we're not even sure why we're mentioning it". Too bad, because that would've actually cleared things up a little. Instead, they first insinuate a conspiracy theory that as near as we can tell they made up themselves - an impossible theory that ignores that the monitors have been telling the Palestinians for weeks that they're leaving...
The speed with which Israeli forces moved in after the monitors left has led many to believe the US and UK did a secret deal - or may even have been given an Israeli ultimatum to leave.
... and then they provided extensive paragraphs about the "implications of the anti-Western backlash":
Foreigners mostly live harmoniously among the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Many of them feel sympathy for the Palestinian cause and experience the daily hardships of the Israeli occupation along with the general population... [The kidnappings yesterday are] a serious new development, because in most previous abductions - which have always ended quickly and peacefully - the hostages have been used as bargaining chips for unrelated internal issues.
If you're thinking that the part about abductions of foreign citizens always ending peacefully sounds like an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing, that's because it actually is an open and outright lie that somebody should be fired for publishing.
UPDATE: Our bad on blaming the BBC for the "Israel made the monitors leave" conspiracy theory. Hannan Ashrawi seems to be the original source: "People believe that the British knew of the Israeli assault and they abandoned their post. Clearly the only source of danger was the Israeli army." Yeah, unless you count all the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory - the ones the British and Americans repeatedly complained about through such apparently opaque phrases as "if you don't do something to protect us from the rampaging Palestinian gangs that have been running loose since the Hamas victory, we're leaving".
[Cross-postd at IsraPundit]
